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UWS Digital News covers all the Occupy News of the day, from East Coast to West, and around the globe, and rolls it up in one big Occupy News Digest for you, dear readers. We try to identify significant Occupy trends so you're always in the loop about what's coming next from Occupy and how it impacts working people and organized labor in the United States and beyond. "We Cover those who Cover Occupy!"

Bankers called on the carpet world-wide by Occupy. Some engage protesters. Chicago readies for NATO Conference. Coverage of the Volvo Ocean Race!

Global :

File Under : Hey Man, We Can
Relate: Moscow's group of Occupiers, aka “Occupy Abai,”
is dust as Putin's cops have the eviction drill down : First set a
pretext, then a deadline. Next, come early (anywhere from 3 to 6AM
usually works), rouse sleepy-headed protesters who typically don't
turn in early, send them packing, then raze the camp. Occupy Abai,
set up May 9 around a monument to Abai Kunanbayev, a Kazakh poet,
says they have a new location, about 2 miles from the city.

This space mentioned yesterday that
Occupy's working groups get stiffed by establishment media that favor
more sensationalistic stories involving vandalism and alleged
violence. However, no sooner do we say it, the New
York Daily News profiles a democratic, worker-owned co-op
formed from Occupy members that has started a t-shirt print shop on
Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn.

The group, OccuCopy says it reserves up
to 25% of operating revenues for the purpose of supporting and
starting other Occupy-owned businesses (there are several, including
a tech venture). By and large, the clients are OWS itself, as well as
local non-profits.

Oops! Occupy
the Farm in Albany, CA had sought to negotiated solution with
UC-Berkeley to the dispute surrounding the public land known as “Gill
Tract” but it appears the university is going the forced eviction
route. Latest word is cops are mobilizing, yellow police lines are
up, and “chemical agents” may be used to get people out. Yowsa.
Nbcbayarea.com

Social network site Twitter sets the
blogosphere abuzz after it files a motion to quash a court order to
turn over tweets and account info for an arrested OWS protester.
Twitter also claims the court does not have the right to deny the
protester the ability to challenge the original court order for the
data, since the NYC DA did not possess a warrant for such data, and
such denial would put an undue burden on the company to stand up for
user privacy.

HuffpostfeaturesMIT Professor Noam Chomsky writing on “Plutonomy and
the Precariat” in which

he essays on Occupy's role in
addressing the sweeping economic and workforce changes that have
marked the United States in the last three decades.

The
International Business Times
questions the legal basis and legitimacy of arrests that took place
at the end of the May Day march in VietnamVeterans
Memorial Plaza. Protesters were told by NYPD that they were
“illegally occupying a public park,” but it now appears they were
occupying several addresses at once, including a private one, which
would have required the occupant to (technically) summon police. The
tenant says they would have, gladly, however did not.

Occupy the Farm has asked for a
Monday meeting with UC-Berekeley to resolve ongoing issues
concerning development at “Gill Tract.” The occupiers want the
farm used for sustainable urban farming, and the university wants a
Whole Foods there, among other things. The University had given the
occupiers until midnight Saturday to leave. Berkeley.patch.com

Occupy Cleveland is still attempting to distance itself from
the alleged plotters to blow up a Cleveland area bridge. Various news
reports reveal that one of those named signed a lease for the
warehouse that now houses approximately a dozen occupiers. Cleveland
Plain Dealer

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